Improved top for mucilage-bottles



J. W1 BOUGHTON. TOP FOR MUGILAGE BOTTLES.

No. 48,508. Patented July 4, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT I OEEICE.

JOHN W. EOUGHTON, or AIELETON, w'I'scoNsIN.

|MPRovED ToPlfF'oR. MuclLAe E-BQTTLES.'

Spr-citication forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,508,1lated July 4, 1865.

To all whom it may concern,-

Be it known that I, JOHN W.BOUGI110N,

made part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of improvenient. Fig. 2 isa central Vertical .section4 of the saine. f

The same letters indicate corrcsl'ionding parts inthe different figures; and to enable one skilled in the art to which my invention refers to make and lise the same, I will pro. ceed to describe it.

Oflatc years the use ot' nineilage has become so universal as to be almost indispensablein au oiice; but the brush andthe metallic top now in use are very defective and inconvenient under many circumstances, `as the metallic top, through which the. handle ot' the brush passes, Its loosely on the neck et' the bott-le, and if the bottle gets tipped over the mueilage rnus ont. The arrangement for applying and holding Inncilage nowin general use cannot be carried by a person traveling or moving about without considerable trouble, for in order to close the bottle the brush has to bc taken out anda cork put in, which soon sticks to the side of the bottle by the gum, rendering it difficult to be taken out. t l

I claim to have invented a top which will be unobjectionable, as it can be used as readily as the one nowin use, and can be closed securely in a manner so as to preventthe escape of mucilage nnderan y eireninstances,unless the bottle gets broken. Its construction will be seen by reference to the drawings andlfollow-4 ing specification, viz: r v

Fig. 1 represents an outward View of the'bo'ttie when closed, and Fig. 2 a'vcrtical section ot' the bottle when open for use.

represents thehottle, and thei'netallie K top, whieh is a hollow cylinder fastened perj:

manentlyto the neck of the bottle, with a cover, D, hinged at K and fastened down bya nut and screw, H. L, Fig. 1, is aslot in the cover, allowing it tov close whenthe brush isin the bottle. In Fig. 2, J representsarubber pad, through the center of which passes' the handle of the; brush, and it can be easilyv moved up or'down on the handle to accommodate it to the quan- 1 tityof mucilage in the bottle.- When the brnshf" is in the bottle the pad rests o-n the shonlders .r w, and when the cover -is screwed down the pad. is compressed between th e`'sho nlders w af. and the cover, preventingthe'escape of thej',

mncilage, even if the bottle is upset.

A screw, cone, or catch maybe used to fasten down the cover; buta serewand n nt are shown,

so that if the gum accumulates in the month of D, not allowing thernbber pad to be pnt in its place, the lcover can be screwed down, compressingthe pad enonglrto'prevent a leakage, even it'thc cover l) l,does not it closely to B.

' In ordinarynse let the nutI and screw fall by the side of :thel bottle, as H I, Fig. 2, and4 let the lid or eoveriall by theothe'r side, as D, Fig. 2.

`In order to close the bottle, turn the coverl over on the bottle and vs'crewit down, coinpressing the padin the month' o t B', Fig. l, as

:heretofore shown in Fig. 1.

-aving;thus'described my invention, what lI claim as new therein, and desire to secure by LettersPatentfis- The combination. ot' the compressible pad j aroundtlrebrnshhandle with the pressurecap,`snbstantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN W. BOUGHTON. Witnesses I EDWARD II. KNIGH'I OCTAVIUs KNIGHT. 

